Abstract - Why sport exists – and should it be considered philosophically?
Problem. In this essay I have been asking the question where sport comes from and what values justify the reason for both the Olympic and the non-Olympic athlete’s activity. If sport exists as two types: the ludic and the Olympic, then two reasons must explain its origins.
Method. The purpose of the research task, which was preceded by a historiosophic query, was to explain the hypothetical reason for the existence of an athlete.
Results. The first part of the paper refers to my personal experience of playing the game of palant. It also includes the answer to the question concerning the reason for the agonistic destination of both the athlete of play and the athlete faced with the seriousness of the Olympic feat. The second part of the paper explains why the origins of the Olympic movement cannot be understood without knowing the social conditions in which the philosophies of moral consolation arise. Modern Olympism is a moral philosophy that opposes the evil of war and provides all nations with the possibility of creating peaceful ecumenism in friendship.
Conclusion. In conclusion, a law has been formulated, which says that if there was no moral evil of the act of war, there would be no premise to oppose the moral good in the sign-symbolic rule of peaceful coexistence.